Langdon expected to hear an embassy operator, but he found himself instead listening to an answering machine.

The embassy has an automated message system.

Bezu Fache despised many things… but few drew more wrath than the U.S. Embassy.

And the embassy invariably did just that.

If you let Fache take you into custody now, you’ll spend weeks in a French jail while DCPJ and the U.S. Embassy fight over which courts try your case.

I need to get Langdon to the U.S. Embassy.

Do you know how to get to the embassy?

I’ll see you at the embassy, Mr. Langdon.

The embassy’s night operator was reading Time magazine’s International Edition when the sound of her phone interrupted.

"U.S. Embassy," she answered.

The embassy was only about a mile away, and Langdon settled into his seat.

I’ll show you once we’re safely inside the embassy.

The embassy was less than a mile away now.

I take it the embassy is off-limits this evening?

I can explain the situation and have the embassy send someone to meet us somewhere.

Your embassy has no jurisdiction except on their own property.

Call your embassy right now, and they are going to tell you to avoid further damage and turn yourself over to Fache.

What had begun as a one-mile dash to the U.S. Embassy had now become a full-fledged evacuation from Paris.

If you walk into your embassy and request temporary asylum, that’s one thing, but asking them to take action against French law enforcement in the field?

What about the embassy?

Let’s call the embassy.

Legally, the U.S. Embassy could intervene and extradite guilty citizens back to the United States, where they received nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

He shot an anxious glance at Langdon, who stood nearby with the phone pressed to his ear, apparently still listening to his phone message from the U.S. Embassy.

Recently the Board of Ministers and the media had become more openly critical of Fache’s aggressive tactics, his clashes with powerful foreign embassies, and his gross overbudgeting on new technologies.

But if we get you out of here, and make it to your embassy, then your government will protect your rights while you and I prove you had nothing to do with this murder.

Paris Match had run a cartoon recently depicting Fache as a police dog, trying to bite an American criminal, but unable to reach because it was chained to the U.S. Embassy.

The U.S. Embassy.

Did she make the embassy?

Once we’re airborne, you can make a decision as to whether or not you’d like someone from the U.S. Embassy to meet us.

Langdon suddenly didn’t want anything to do with the embassy.

"Mr. Langdon," she declared, pulling a small slip of paper from her pocket, "this is the number for your embassy’s messaging service.

"I will do that," Sophie said, speaking hurriedly, "but after you’re safely inside the U.S. Embassy.

The U.S. Embassy in Paris is a compact complex on Avenue Gabriel, just north of the ChampsElysées.

Now, as they sped away from the embassy, serpentining through sparse traffic on Champs-Elysées, Langdon felt his options deteriorating.

Sophie’s SmartCar tore through the diplomatic quarter, weaving past embassies and consulates, finally racing out a side street and taking a right turn back onto the massive thoroughfare of Champs-Elysées.

But if Langdon didn’t phone the embassy, then who the hell did he call?

There are no more uses of "embassy" in the book.

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The Iranian students took over the U.S. embassy.

Surely the embassy would be able to get Mahtob and me out of here, if only I could find some way to contact a sympathetic official.